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Theses/Dissertations from 2017
"The Whole Building Is A Classroom": An Oral History of a School's Role in the Culture of the Community, Valerie Free Jones
The Influence on Morbidity and Mortality when Blood Products are Transfused using Conventional Coagulation Tests Versus TEG or ROTEM in Trauma Patients Perioperatively, Teresa Diana Kelley
A comparison of self-perceived test-taking motivation on large scale high- and low-stakes tests, Randall Joseph King
Desperate and Determined Men: West Virginia's Lincoln County Feud, Brandon Ray Kirk
Forging a Bluegrass Commonwealth: The Kentucky Statehood Movement and the Politics of the Trans-Appalachian West, 1783–1792, Christopher L. Leadingham
Examining Risk Perceptions and Efficacy for Healthy Weight Management among Appalachian College-Aged Students: A Test and Extension of the Risk-Perception-Attitude Framework, Victoria Ann Ledford
Formal and Functional Linguistic Properties of ESL Textbooks, Jessica Shea Lewis
Local Sensitivity Analysis of Acute Inflammation, James Martin
The effects of flexor pronator mass fatigue on medial elbow stability, Nathaniel Harvey Millard
The effects of community type and sexual orientation on adolescent alcohol abuse: A retrospective exploration, Karla Beth Moore
Tenofovir Induced Nephrotoxicity: A Mechanistic Study, Rachel A. Murphy
Professional development for the West Virginia School Psychologists Association, Andrea Nunn
“Fence-line” contrast soundscape study of forested lands in Allegany State Park and Allegheny National Forest: Is there an impact of oil and gas development on an eastern forest soundscape?, Kasey Lynne Osborne
The Pareto-g Extended Weibull Distribution, Oluwaseun Elizabeth Otunuga
Establishing environmental variability in the toxins produced by a single strain of prymnesium parvum, Amy Parsons-White
Balance score card in health care organization, Vani Pathuri and Huanyu Wang
Is interoperability a hindrance to the nationwide health information exchange (NHIE)?, Nitesh Patil and Sruthi Katamneni
The Perceptions of College Foreign Language Students Concerning their High School Foreign Language Preparation, Bryan M. Pickens
Douglass High School: Students' Perspectives on Attending a Segregated School, Lee Ann Hvizdak Porter
Effectiveness of Essentials for College Math as a High School Transitional Course, Jennifer S. Riggleman
School-based evaluations for students with intellectual disabilities: is "sufficiently comprehensive" good enough?, Elizabeth E. Robinson
The combinatorics of modified Macdonald polynomials, Jacob Rodeheffer
In the Company of Angels: Expressions of Personal Autonomy, Authority, and Agency in Early Anglo-Saxon Monasticism, William Tanner Smoot
The "Noble Savage" in American Music and Literature, 1790-1855, Jacob Mathew Somers
Telemedicine and its Utilization in the Management of Chronic Heart Failure Patients, Adejoke Sotome and Chirra Pooja
Weihrauch Reducibility and Finite-Dimensional Subspaces, Sean Sovine
"We're Human": An Analysis of Formal and Informal Training Methods for Direct Care Staff Working with Dual-Diagnosis Populations, Adam Clay Stephenson
Terror and territory: A spatio-temporal analysis of ISIL, Robert Riley Strider
Analysis of Bioaccumulation of Selenium Diets in Brook Trout (Salvelnius Fontinalis), Kyle Aaron Tasker
A Robust Framework for Mining YouTube Data, Zifeng Tian
"God, Mother and Island Creek": The Story of Holden Central School and the Emergence of Nurturing Paternalism, Harley D. Walden
West Virginia needle exchange program, Briana Washington and Sara Johnson
Surviving Fallout in Appalachia: An Examination of Class Differences within Civil Defense Preparation in West Virginia During the Early Years of the Cold War, Tristan Miranda Williams
Does Rotem-Guided Therapy Influence Postoperative Chest Tube Output in On-pump CABG?, Preston Franklin Woodburn-Camp
The role of oxidation-sensitive nociception and epigenetics in endometriosis-associated pain, Kristeena Ray Wright
Relationship between media use and cultural adjustment: A study on international students at Marshall University, Haruka Yanagihara
A simple embedded atom potential for palladium-hydride, Yang Zhang
Theses/Dissertations from 2016
Electromyography study of muscle fatigue during isometric exercises in swimmers and non-swimmers, Tiffany Aeling
Syntheses and characterization of [4]Ferrocenophane, Ahmed Sabah Al-doori
Analyzing Pterosaur Ontogeny and Sexual Dimorphism with Multivariate Allometry, Erick Charles Anderson
Preschool to School: Transition through the Eyes of Teachers, Ruthann Arneson
The decisive kingdom from soft to hard power, Abdullah Ali Asiri
Implementation and Perceived Effectiveness of Distributed Leadership in RESA 1 Schools in Southern West Virginia, Ingrida Barker
Women Leading to Make a Difference: An Inside Look at a Strength-based Home Visiting Program in Rural Appalachia, Kathy J. Bialk
A Generalization of the Difference of Slopes Test to Poisson Regression with Three-Way Interaction, Melinda Bierhals
Principals' Perceptions of the Effectiveness of the JROTC Program, Patty Jean Blake
Effectiveness of an Online FERPA Training Program, Sonja G. Cantrell
The Effects of Students' Perceptions of Campus Safety and Security on Student Enrollment, Brian Andrew Carrico
Higher education administrators' perspective on service learning, Briana Cicero-Johns
The Relation of Dropout Prevention Programs in West Virginia Schools to Dropout Rates and Principal Perceptions of Effectiveness, Vicky Callison Cline
Attitudes Toward Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Miranda Lea Cobb
When Party Does Not Matter: An Examination of Conditions that Influence a Senator to Vote Against Party Leadership, Alexander Phillip Collins
A Coprological Survey of Golden Mantled Howler Monkeys (Alouatta palliata palliata) in the Osa Peninsula, Costa Rica, Jess M. Conatser
Effect of Wh-Question Graphic Organizer on Reading Comprehension in Students with Autism Spectrum Disorders, Josh Connelly
The Human Manager: Consent Deal, Informal Organization and Routinization, Jennifer Lynn Conrad
Fluency Interventions and the Impact on Comprehension, Colleen Cook
Adult neural stem cell differentiation and signaling is disrupted by low-level silver nanoparticle exposure in vitro, Robert Jefferson Cooper
Age of Kindergarten Entry and Rate of Specific Learning Disabilities, Elizabeth A. Crum
"Or this whole affair is a failure": a special treasury agent's observations of the Port Royal Experiment, Port Royal, South Carolina, April to May, 1862, Michael Edward Scott Emett
Supportive Leadership: The Principal's Role in Beginning Teacher Retention, Kelli LeAnn Epling
A Mechanical Investigation of Second Order Homogeneous Dynamic Equations on a Time Scale, Jacob E. Fischer
Improving Vocabulary Comprehension for Deaf or Hard of Hearing Students, Tammy Gallion
Bodybuilding is an art and your body is the canvas: an examination of bodybuilders and the built body, Caitlin Greaf
Principal Perceptions of Standards-Based Teacher Evaluation in West Virginia, Brent Douglas Griffith
Testing the Efficacy of Anuran Callback Surveys, Matthew S. Grisnik
Re-professionalizing teachers: earning a seat and a voice at the table, Donna Diane Hage
Measuring the Self-Assessed Presence of the Essential Features of PBIS in West Virginia Schools, James Franklin Harris
A Correlational Study of Self-Regulation and Fine Arts in Education, Rachel D. Hendricks
The effect of mast availability on ambush site selection in eastern diamondback rattlesnakes (Crotalus adamanteus), Berlynna May Heres
An Assessment of West Virginia Watersheds Through the Use of Geographic Information System (GIS), Nathan Thomas Hoxie
A Case Study of a Professional Development School in Rural West Virginia, Cheryl Ann Terry Jeffers
Minority Librarians in Higher Education: A Critical Race Theory Analysis, Kelli Johnson
A Newer Humanism, Andrew Kirkland Johnston
Planetary Nebula Associations with Star Clusters in the Andromeda Galaxy, Yasmine Kahvaz
Ideational Grammatical Metaphorical Features of EFL Textbooks, Yuya Kaneso
A Comparative Analysis of the Metabolism and Energetics of Darters (Percidae), Emma Kirsten Kist
Hibernacula Site Selection of the Eastern Box Turtle, Terrapene c. carolina, in a West Virginia Population, Benjamin Owen Koester
Effects of Phonological Intervention on At-Risk Kindergarten Students with Reading Difficulties, Laura Lees
The Benefits of Reading Racetrack with Flashcards, a Smartboard and Time Delay Usage in Increasing Sight Word Recognition and Fluency with Special Education Students, Tara J. Leffingwell
Education All A'Twitter: Twitter's Role in Educational Technology, Rikki Elaine McCormick Lowe
Stratigraphy, Sedimentology and Reservoir Modeling of the Late Devonian Berea Sandstone/Siltstone in northeastern Kentucky and southeastern Ohio, Forrest Christopher Mattox
Appalachian Parent Perceptions of ADHD Symptomology, Shaina Lee Meadows
Appalachian Teachers' referral for ADHD in Contrast to Giftedness in Selected Vignettes, Alexandria Rose Mejia
Revision of polycotylid plesioaur systematics (sauropterygia plesiosauria) and description of the axial osteology of a juvenile polycotylid, Donald Joseph Morgan III
"Let Us Bury and Forget:" Civil War Memory and Identity in Cabell County, West Virginia, 1865-1915, Seth Adam Nichols
Portrayals of Gender in the Media: A Content Analysis Approach to Identifying Gender Oppression and Legitimation of Patriarchy in Magazine Advertisements, Autumn M. O’Toole
The Effects of Visual Vocabulary Strategies on Vocabulary Knowledge, Maria Phillips
Losing Diana: Children and Families Reflect on the Closing of a School in Rural West Virginia, Allison Nicole Pyle
3,5-Dichloroaniline: Biotransformation and Mechanistic Aspects of Nephrotoxicity In Vitro, Christopher Robert Racine
My Avatar, My Self: A Posthuman Examination of Video Games and Cyborg Bodies, Zachery Tyler Rakes
A Study of the FEPAC Accredited Graduate Forensic Science Programs' Curricula, Catherine Genice Rushton
"Safer" Harbor: the impact of different models of safe harbor laws on the criminalization of commercially sexually exploited children in the United States, Priscila Borges Marques dos Santos
Teachers’ Perceptions of the Effectiveness of Academic Acceleration, Christy L. Schwartz
Using Reading CBM to Predict Performance on Smarter Balanced Assessment, Jonathan Wesley Shank
An Ultrasonographic Analysis of the Structures of the Subacromial Space, as They Relate to the Postures of Upper String Musicians, Elliot V. Smithson
